| LASEK effectively treated post-LASIK myopic regression in study
Patients who experience myopic regression after undergoing LASIK can be successfully re-treated using LASEK, a small study shows. However, investigators found that attempting corrections of 2 D or more was associated with a significant rate of haze, the authors noted. Nurullah Cagil, MD, and colleagues in Ankara, Turkey, reviewed outcomes for 24 eyes of 15 patients treated with a LASEK enhancement for post-LASIK residual refractive errors. The average age of the patients was 34 years. The interval between the primary LASIK surgery and the LASEK enhancement averaged 26 months, according to the study. Before the initial LASIK procedure, spherical equivalent averaged 4.88 D and cylinder averaged 0.63 D. Using LASEK, surgeons attempted a mean spherical equivalent correction of 1.25 D, although the attempted correction was 2 D or more in six eyes.
Accolade for Lambda
Power supply manufacturer Lambda has won the coveted Manufacturer of the Year award at the North Devon Manufacturing Association (NDMA) Awards 2007.
Derek Carter, former Chairman of the NDMA said of the companys entry: Lambda is a truly world class company, producing leading edge products for a world market.
Youd be surprised where Lambdas products can be found: get into a bodyscanner and theyre there, go for laser eye surgery and theyre there, go into a wafer fab and theyre there... here is a company which deserves to be Manufacturer of the Year.
Having recently celebrated 40 years of manufacturing at its Ilfracombe plant, Martin Southam, Director of Marketing, Lambda Europe attributes the companys continuing success to: A very loyal and experienced team of employees with expertise in a multitude of disciplines.
Join Sidney Lions Club in sight campaign
Everyone does it. We all take it for granted - sight. When you picked up the newspaper today, did it even occur to you that you may not be able to see the words, let alone read them? Probably not.The facts speak for themselves: One out of every 35 older adult is visually impaired; more than 150 million people need corrective eyewear to compensate for their refractive error; more than 9 million people over the age of 40 suffer from age-related diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma or macular degeneration; and one child somewhere in the world will go blind every minute. Experts say that the world's blind population could double from 37 million to 74 million by 2020!Lions Clubs across the world know the challenges ahead, and because of this have coordinated Campaign SightFirst II, a worldwide fundraising effort involving Lions in more than 45,000 clubs to raise $150 million.
Economic Impact of Vision Loss in the United States Estimated at ...
CHICAGO, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Prevent Blindness America today released a new report estimating the costs associated with adult vision problems in the United States at $51.4 billion. The Economic Impact of Vision Problems: The Toll of Major Adult Eye Disorders, Visual Impairment, and Blindness on the U.S. Economy provides both the costs to the individual and their caregivers, and the impact on the U.S. economy of vision conditions including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataract, diabetic retinopathy, primary open-angle glaucoma, refractive error, visual impairment and blindness. This report marks Phase III of a concerted effort by Prevent Blindness America to address the critical need for better eye health and to ensure that sufficient governmental resources are dedicated to the research, treatment and prevention of eye-related diseases.
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